{"id":162,"date":"2008-08-18T20:01:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T03:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/?p=162"},"modified":"2009-04-05T13:56:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T20:56:19","slug":"no-time-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"No Time Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

Egoic Mind:<\/em> I’m not getting better.\u00a0 There’s not enough time.\u00a0 The Doctor is checking for cancer and other tumors.\u00a0 My life is a mess.\u00a0 I’m ruining everyone’s life around me – and hear this all too often.\u00a0 What if there is no transcendence?\u00a0 What if enlightenment is a magic act and no one really ever gets rid of this pain body or terrorizing mind?\u00a0 Or perhaps it is only ME that won’t reach the gateless gate.<\/p>\n

Gnani: <\/strong> And perhaps it is YOU who are split in TWO with The Gnani and Ego as two opposing forces.\u00a0 What makes you think you are not already in Nirvana?\u00a0 That the Egoic Mind and The Gnani are not actually two but the same coin, the yin-yang?\u00a0 Dear one, there is only The One and you are only two painfully aware of that Truth.\u00a0 It is because you have caught a glimpse behind the veil that you are looking through smoky mirrors now and longing for the fog to lift.<\/p>\n

But the mist is also The Absolute and it is there for a reason.\u00a0 Do not try to blow the clouds away, you need not seek the lighthouse to guide you out of the storm.\u00a0 Be right here, right in the thick of it; motionless, with no desire to move or escape your current situation.\u00a0 Do what you must to take care of your body and take actions to ease the pain of those around you as best you can.\u00a0 But do so without trying to run away from your current circumstances.\u00a0 This is the place you have found yourself.\u00a0 It is the perfect place for the next chapter to unfold.\u00a0 It is where You are.<\/p>\n

Stop looking for your Self in some future state that exists in the illusion of your mind.\u00a0 You can never find your Self at some point in the future.\u00a0 You can not prepare your body\/mind to be in a better alignment so that you can find that which you seek.\u00a0 You are already what you are looking for.\u00a0 Please, stop your search and look around you.\u00a0 You have arrived.\u00a0 You are HOME.<\/p>\n

The Next Day<\/p>\n

Egoic Mind:<\/em> I got my test results back from the Doctor’s office and there were no markers for cancer or an adrenal tumor.\u00a0 My daughter leaves for Italy in less than two weeks.\u00a0 I wish I was feeling better before she departs.\u00a0 Lots of mind stuff huh?<\/p>\n

Gnani: <\/strong> It’s normal for minds to divide, organize, plan and obsess.\u00a0 This is what they do when they have been left to their own devises for so long.\u00a0 Like a wild dog chasing a cat, the wild mind can not be expected to sit still.\u00a0 The art of stillness must be instilled, rewarded and practiced.\u00a0 So what are you going to do right now?<\/p>\n

Egoic Mind:<\/em> Breathe.<\/p>\n

Gnani: <\/strong> Consider the invisible quality of the breath.\u00a0 You can not see it in the room with you now, but it is indubitably present is it not?\u00a0 The vital breath moves through your flesh-body, but what is the source of the breath itself?<\/p>\n

Egoic Mind:<\/em> I do not know.<\/p>\n

Gnani: <\/strong> Stay with the emptiness of this not-knowing-ness which is beyond words … and the wild mind in it’s own bewilderment will be silent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Egoic Mind: I’m not getting better.\u00a0 There’s not enough time.\u00a0 The Doctor is checking for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gnani"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}